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VOLUME 15 NUMBER 2-3, NOVember–December 2011 $5.50 There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. —G.K. Chesterton Order the Conference talks from the 2011 St. Louis, Missouri Conference! Or download them from www.chesterton.org QTY. DALE AHLQUIST (President of the QTY. DR. PASQUALE ACCARDO (Professor of QTY. LEAH DARROW (Former contestant on the American Chesterton Society) Developmental Research in Pediatrics reality TV show America’s Next Top Model) at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Poetic Prophet, and author of several books on medicine, The Mysticism of Modesty The Prophetic Poet literature, and detective fiction) and the Poetry of Purity QTY. CHRISTOPHER CHECK (Executive Vice The Christian Epic of QTY. DALE AHLQUIST President of the Rockford Institute) Freedom – Chesterton’s The Chesterton and Lepanto: The Battle Ballad of the White Horse Father Brown and the Poem REDD GRIFFIN (Instructor at Triton QTY. 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TOD WORNER (Doctor of Paying Attention: The The End of the Armstice Internal Medicine, and Lecturer on Poetry of Prayer the History of World War II) Single Talk: $6.00 each OR order the Complete set of CDs for $60.00 (save $6) Cigar-Smoking Prophets: Shipping and Handling: $3 for 1st disc, plus $1 for each additional disc; conference bundle $10 Chesterton and Churchill NAME: # Single # Sets Amount Enclosed ADDRESS: I’m paying by: q Check q VISA q MC q DISC q AMEX card Card #: SIGnatURE: EXP:____________ CITY: Order online at www.chesterton.org or mail to: STATE/ZIP: 4117 Pebblebrook Circle, Minneapolis, MN 55437 952-831-3096 [email protected] E-MAIL : ______________________ PHONE: ( ) TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 15 Number 2-3, November–December 2011 2 | TREMENDOUS TRIFLES 22 | CONFERENCE REPORT Mysteries that Could “Hold That Thought!” Happen Only in Botswana 3 | LUNACY & LETTERS BY LOU Horvath BY CHRIS CHAN 5 | EDITORIAL Chesterton’s Bloodthirsty Heirs 25 | THE HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS The Difference between Penn BY STEVE MILLER BY Beatrice WILCZYNSKI State and the Catholic Church 48 | BOOK REVIEW 37 | CHESTERTON UNIVERSITY 6 | STRAWS IN THE WIND The Way of the The Difficulty of Defending Do Miracles Happen? Christian Samurai BY G.K. CHESTERTON the Normal REVIEWED BY David PAUL Deavel THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 1911-1913 VOLUME XXIX OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF G.K. 10 | SCHALL ON CHESTERTON CHESTERTON 49 | THE DISTRIBUTIST The Risky Adventure The Taxman Is Under BY JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. 38 | THE SIGNATURE OF MAN Your Mattress The Glory of Grey BY RICHARD ALEMAN 11 | ROLLING ROAD BY G.K. CHESTERTON How the Music was The Children and the Cross Murdered on TV DVDs BY DALE AHLQUIST 39 | THE FLYING INN BY CHRIS CHAN A Clash of Cultures 12 | ETHICS OF ELFLAND BY David BERESFORD 52 | FEAR OF FILM The Extraordinary Dust Rag Henry Poole is Here (2008) BY MORGAN ROTH 40 | THE FLYING STARS REVIEWED BY ART LIVINGSTON The Extraordinary Coke Bottle Every Child is Jesus BY AUDREY JOHNSON BY NANCY CARPENTIER BROWN 53 | CHESterton’S MAIL BAG Was, But Is No Longer 16 | MISCELLANY OF MEN 41 | JOGGING WITH G.K. Mrs. Cecil Chesterton The Probable Existence of Elves 54 | NEWS WITH VIEWS BY NANCY CARPENTIER BROWN BY ROBERT MOORE-JUMONVILLE 55 | CLERIHEW CORNER 18 | TALES OF THE SHORT BOW 42 | ALL I SURVEY 56 | LETTER TO AMERICA The Flying Clocks Leggishness The Most Fictitious BY JAMES G. BRUEN, JR. BY David FAGERBERG Sort of Fiction The Pea and the Princess BY G.K. CHESTERTON BY KELSEY MCINTYRE 43 | VARIED TYPES This is How We Roll COVER ART BY Beatrice WILCZYNSKI 20 | THE BALLADE OF GILBERT BY VICTORIA DARKEY The Scientific Love-song BY G.K. CHESTERTON 44 | THE DETECTION CLUB Helping Hand JAMES G. BRUEN, JR. PUBLISHER: Dale Ahlquist, President, ACS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Sean P. Dailey ART DIRECTOR: Ted Schluenderfritz LITERARY EDITOR: Therese Warmus COPY EDITOR: Susan Meister SENIOR WRITER: Art Livingston CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Richard Aleman, David Beresford, James G. Bruen Jr., Nancy Carpentier Brown, Joe Campbell, John C. Chalberg, Christopher Chan, Victoria Darkey, David Paul Deavel, David W. 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The views expressed by Gilbert Magazine contributors are not necessarily those of the publisher, the editors, or the American Chesterton Society. COPYRIGHT ©2011 BY THE AMERICAN CHESTERTON SOCIETY. Gilbert Magazine Outlining Sanity 1 TREMENDOUS TRIFLES by Sean P. Dailey ext August will be here before you know it, and that G.K. Chesterton debated George Bernard means you need to start making plans now for the 100 Shaw for the first time in public. Only Shaw 2012 Chesterton Conference, which will be August YEARS AGO was not present. Chesterton was speaking 2–4 at the Silver Legacy Hotel (and Casino) in at Cambridge University and his remarks were entirely Reno, Nevada. To celebrate the 100th anniversary Nof G.K. Chesterton’s novel Manalive, we will be showing devoted to rebutting a speech made by Shaw in the same the world premiere of the movie, Manalive, directed by venue a few months earlier. Shaw had come out attacking Joey Odendahl and starring Mark Shea, Kevin O’Brien, Christian theology, and Chesterton defended it, because and Kaiser Johnson. The theme of the conference will be a Christian theology is based on Reason and Liberty. “We pivotal line from Manalive: “Break the Conventions. Keep believe God created the world, desiring not so much to the Commandments.” control it as to free it, desiring to make his creatures cre- Featured speakers are Dale Ahlquist and Joseph Pearce; ators in their turn responsible for the worlds they created. also appearing are Mark Shea and Kevin O’Brien. And Joey Now, instead of worshiping God, Mr. Shaw has chosen Odendahl himself. We will have Jason Jones, the producer to worship something he calls the Life-Force. But it is dif- of the movie Bella. Other speakers include Ralph Wood, ficult to worship the Life-Force for the same reason that it Cameron Moore, Lawrence Rohrer, and Julian Ahlquist, is difficult to worship a hyphen. If a man wants to worship fresh from eviscerating Remnant editor Michael Matt in a the Life-Force merely because it is a Force, he may very last-man-standing debate on Harry Potter. Hosting the conference is the Chesterton Society of naturally worship it in the electric battery. I am tempted to Nevada. The closing Mass will be celebrated by His Excel- say it will serve him right if he eventually worships the life lency Bishop Randolph Calvo in the cathedral two blocks force in the electric chair. But if he wants to worship life from the hotel. According to ACS president Dale Ahlquist, because it is living, he will find nothing in history so living “It will be the best conference we’ve ever had.” Which is as that little life that began in the cave at Bethlehem and saying a lot. now visibly lives forever.” Speaking of conferences, the talks from the 2011 What message would you send to readers and admirers of Chesterton conference are now available for download in Chesterton in Brazil? MP3 format from the Web site. Go to www.chesterton.org, click “Store,” click “Conference talks,” and then click What surprises me most in Chesterton is the fact that it is “30th Annual Conference.” The downloads are $5.99 each a universal writer. The truths spoken by him transcend bar- riers of language, he speaks to all people, everywhere, the and all talks from the conference, with the exception of universal truth that influences the way we look at the world. Christopher Check’s talk on “Lepanto,” are He inspires us joy, appreciation, gratitude and there (“Lepanto” will be available soon). Have a Trifle? Send it to encouragement to our imagination. He encour- [email protected] ages us to serve others, but is always interested Speaking of the Web site, we are over- in what is right. Chesterton makes us want to flowing with wonderful gift ideas for loved ones, friends, be better people, and there are few writers capable of causing or even yourself. Visit http://www.chesterton.org/word- such effects. You feel good when reading Chesterton, but at press/2011/11/christmas-shopping-with-us-at-the-acs/ for the same time, you will become much better.